Tuesday

Did I mention things not going as well as they could do at school? I've not had the best attitude on occasions lately and my teacher got a little worried about me.  Thing is, I keep getting overlooked when offering an answer during class and it really winds me up.  They have tried to explain why this might happen in a class of 30 but I can't help myself and often blurt answers out which leads to me getting told off and not taking it very well.  I think this is where it's all coming from, so we've all tried to get over it recently.  I'm getting a mini report sent home every day now, I think it's helping and i'm getting loads of really good, positive comments.

In other school news us year 2's are doing our SAT tests whatever they are. It doesn't bother me, why should it, after all I got 15 out of 10 in my numeracy test!

We can tell summer is well and truly on the way as the big side door at gymnastics was open for the first time this year, good stuff!

Wednesday

It was results week at swimming, sadly I hadn't passed even though i'd done really well.

I think I might give lessons a rest over the summer, which ought to please Dad and Ned.

Thursday

I attained my platinum award for 11 and 12 times tables, proper chuffed I was too.

After school dance was good this week, we got to work out our own routines in groups. I worked with Ben, Joe and Jamie, 

I think we put on an excellent show too.

I had a rubbish day at school and seemed to get told off all the time for nothing as far as I can work out.  Mum and Dad were in no way sympathetic to my cause though and just accused me of faffing about when I should have been listening.  Nice to have parental support isn't it?

We helped Dad make chocolate brownies for Friday night tea.  
My friend Amy was coming for tea and i'd told her how epic Dad's brownies were and she wanted to try them.

Friday

Sadly my triple cricket extravaganza (PE, Golden Time and after school club) failed to come off when we had to do ICT instead during golden time. It was rubbish ICT with loads of typing too, not happy.

I had Amy round for tea, so I was chuffed to bits.  We had a great time, played in the garden, bounced on the trampoline, made perfume from some flowers, proper cool girls stuff.  She loved the brownies!

When I got home I gave them a wide berth and decided to offer Dad advice on the barbecue he was assembling in the dining room.

Saturday

Mum had booked me an eye test for first thing Saturday morning.  I've been rbbing my eyes quite a bit on and off since way before hayfever season was a possibilty.  I've also been squinting at the telly apparently.  I was pretty worried about the whole thing and I wasn't sure that I wanted to wear glasses.  Turns out I needn't have worried, everything was fine vision wise and the test itself was pretty cool.  Mum reckons she saw charts for me that she'd never even dreamed of getting to.

We then spent a while helping Mum find some new glasses.

Well, when we say helping, what we really mean was thrusting hundreds of pairs under her nose for her to try on.

It was a fairly inconclusive process it has to be said.

I finally parted with some of my birthday money in John Lewis.  I was really taken with the lava lamp I saw in there the other week.  After much deliberation I decided on the model and colour and placed my order on the self service terminal, ready for collection on Sunday.

I spent the afternoon having a nice old slump in front of the telly.

While I had a game of Catan with Mum and Dad.  I let Mum win for once, but had the largest army anyone had ever seen!

Well it was a lovely day, there was a football match on telly, lets have a barbecue!

Yep, good idea, Alan And Hayley, Andy, Owen and Laura and Darcey came round.

We had a great time, everyone loved having a bounce on the trampoline with us.

Sunday

I'd been hastling Dad for weeks for a bike ride, he finally agreed on the condition we left bright and early on Sunday morning.  I think he was pretty surprised when I crept into his room at 6:20 am.  He sprang out of bed, packed some stuff and we were on our way to Swinley Forest in Bracknell.  We were there for 7:20 pretty much the only ones in the car park.  We kitted up and headed out on the Blue trail, just over 6 miles.  There were ups, downs, drops, jumps, berms...pretty action packed.  I didn't have to wait for Dad too much either.  We completed the lap pretty quickly, did a quick trip round the green beginneres trail and then headed out round the blue again.  I loved it and can't wait to come back and try the Red route.

I had Eloise's craft party in the afternoon.  It was great fun, we decorated our own cakes, made pipe cleaner butterflies (i made two and gave one to Sacha as she struggled a bit with hers) did some masaics and made and flew paper aeroplanes.

While Ellis was partying I went to collect my lava lamp.  It is so cool, thanks to anyone who gave me money.  I loved falling asleep watching it do it's thing.

Monday

We made up our own dance in small groups at after school dance club.  I got together with Harry and William.  Our routine basically involved me dancing and prancing about while the boys staged a comedy mock fight/argument.  Quite arty i'm sure you'll agree.

Quad kids finished with water squirting from our drinks bottles, well, it was a hot day and we'd been training hard!

Tuesday

Well I had Gymnastics at school and after scool today.  The people from the gymnastics club are coming into school to teach us all, how cool is that?

We had Netball with no year six players this week, they are concentrating on their SAT's now so thats that for them and we're the senior players now.

Wednesday

Well i'm still waiting for the last few stragglers to reply to my party invites.....it's only a few days away.

I had my swimming lesson, the best thing about it was the walk there.  Ned and I have worked out that a short, stout stick dragged along the fence alongside the cricket makes a most satisfying sound.

Yeah, it's great, you can change the noise by running, walking, up or down.

Dad bought a sample invitation for my party home from work.  I gave him a very detailed design brief, which he managed to fulfill. I authorised the full production print run.

Thursday

I love Thursday, much as I love dance, gymnastics and swimming I do love having no clubs and a Ned free hour after school to chill out with the telly.

Friday

Golden time this week ended up being needlework.  It was actually pretty brilliant, I learned loads of different types of stitching, i never knew even existed.

Cricket club was cancelled this week, which was a shame as I was really looking forward to it.

We cheered him up by going to Tesco to choose the sweets and cake for his party bags though.

Yeah, I loved that.  Cheered me right up.
I also wrote out my party invites to hand out at school next week!

Saturday

Well my Quad kids was cancelled as it was supposed to be wet and windy.

That meant we could stay in and concentrate on my television appearance.

Except we didn't see her.

Nope, if it was on we must have missed it.  Still, it was a nice chance for some snuggling up:

My friend Robert came round mid afternoon.  We'd arranged for him to come home from Quadkids with us for some Xbox before my party so this meant we got even more Xbox time.

He was pretty good fun, I liked him.
It was party time, we went to pick up Hugo on the way and headed for the pool.  So, this Wobsticle thing, it's an infatible, two lane assault course type thing that stretches two thirds of the way down the pool, a bit like total wipeout I suppose?
Alastair had forgotten his trunks, he didn't want to go in his pants and didn't want Dad to buy him any new ones from the shop at the Centre.  We left a voicemail for his Mum and Dad to bail him out.....
Apparently you had to be 8 years old to join in.....well, i'm pretty tall and i'm nearly 7.  So we decided i'd give it a go too. I hadn't bargained on Ned's friends being such a bunch of dobbers though, first off telling the man I was seven, and then, telling him I was six.  Anyway, he said he didn't care as long as I passed the swimming test we all had to do.
We had to swim a width and then a length of the pool, which we all managed thankfully.
By this point Ali had his trunks delivered and joined us.
But there was drama pretty much straight away when Liam got into a bit of a situation after he slid off the slide at the end and used Chokoon as a bouyancy aid.  Before we knew it the life gaurd was in the water dragging the pair of them out.  
He did say he was a bit eager to get in and they would have most liely been okay, still, better safe than sorry.
The rest of us carried on and had a great time.  We raced each other, fell off, splashed, slipped and all the rest of it.
It was pretty tiring it has to be said, but I had Ella keeping an eye on me.
Teagan lost a tooth and managed not to lose it, mum wrapped it in a tissue for her.
The hour or so we had in the water flew by and it was soon time to get out.
Mum was amazed how quickly we all got changed afterwards.
All we had to do was hand out the party bags, which went down very well indeed.

We dropped Liam off at home, then Hugo.

Then I unwrapped my presents, the highlight of which (aside from the brilliant Castle Lego set from Tegan) were the sweets, lots of lovely sweets:

It was the usual Saturday night routine after that, Britains Got Talent with Ellis buzzing every act with the app on her Ipod.
I am a bit trigger happy, it must be said.
As an added bonus we also watched the end of the Eurovision song contest....it's weird.

Sunday

We were going to have a day out somewhere or another, but after a bit of a lay in and a weather forecast warning of heavy rain in the afternoon we decided on a quick jaunt to Snelsmore with the bikes.
It was great fun, pretty muddy so loads of sliding about in the gloop.
The rope swings were as brilliant as ever.
In the afternoon we went into town to try and get some bits and bobs.
I perused Game to see what I might spend my vouchers on.
And I ended up in Blacks to get a new raincoat for the summer.
We made friends with this chap:

He was a bit quiet.
We headed home and had a game of Labyrinth.

Monday

Well I had a rubbish day at school.  I seemed to be getting it in the neck from all angles for everything.  I came home and had a cry about it all.

Quad kids practice resumed after school, what with the competition being pushed back into next month so that was good.

Tuesday

I've been a little bit unsettled lately, in need of a lot of cuddles and prone to teary outbursts.  Mum reckons it's down to tiredness after holidays.  I think it's just because I miss everyone when it's back to school time after we're together so much.

This made Dad leaving me at gymnastics a bit more of an ordeal than usual.  But I did enjoy the silly radio quiz 'Real or Real' on the way there in the car, I always beat Dad, he's rubbish at it.

No such issues from me, at least I had my upcoming party to occupy my time.  We'd sorted out the guest list and written out the invites.  This year i'm going to have a 'Wobsticle' party at the swimming pool.

We discussed the matters of our day over our evening meal, today what really got me wound up was the realisation that teachers don't have to wear uniform to school like we do. Not just that though, they get to wear all the jewellery they like, how can that be fair?

I stunned everyone by doing voluntary homework, with absoloutley no prompting from Mum or Dad at all.  I reasoned that if I got it all done and out of the way i'd have none to do over the weekend and I could get some Xbox time free from hassle.

Wednesday

Well I had a great day at school, did loads of good writing and got used as an example to the rest of the class.

Thursday

We had a school trip to the Highclere Estate.  It was great, we learned about sheep farming (with sheep dogs), crop farming (got to bag our own grain), visiting the herb gardens and whole bunch of other stuff.  Our guide for the day, Lord Carnarvon himself no less!

Back at school we did some tree planting in our new garden.  It was brilliant, it chucked it down with rain so we got soaked as well as really muddy, my perfect day!  I came home with three carrier bags full of stuff, two of which contained damp, muddy and sopping wet clothes.

Friday

First week of after school cricket club.  I loved it, I was able to whack the ball for miles with the bat and fielding was a breeze with my super throwing arm skills.

We went to the park while he was cricketing.  I had a go on Ned's big bike, I got on pretty well with it too, when I worked out how to make it stop.

Saturday

Had a trip out to Monkey World on Saturday.

We did, with Kimi and Marny which made it much more exciting.

It was a lovely sunny day so it was good to get out and about a bit.

The monkeys,

And Apes were a bit of an inconvenience in between all the parks to be honest.

Although the Urang's were really good fun, antagonising each other.

And the baby chimp was seriously cute.

I'll never complain about a wet wipe round the chops again either, having seen the Mummy chimp lick the baby's entire face to try and clean it.

Sunday

Nice lazy morning followed by Costa's for lunch and a trip to Toys R Us to exchange a duplicate birthday present. Not strictly Alan's fault this time I must confess.

We also called in at a bike shop to try and get mum some wheels sorted out, but it was rubbish and they only really had mens road bikes in stock.

Dad was grumbling.

There wasn't even many kids ones for me to throw a leg over, rubbish.

Abi and Faye came round in the evening.

I loved showing them my ghost hunt game.

Even if poor old Faye didn't quite get the hang of it.

I think the main reason for their visit was so the grown ups could play board games.  I was pretty disappointed when they started playing Ticket to ride without me.

We helped him get over his disappointment with pretzels and popcorn and some DVD's

At least I got to join in with a few games of Jungle Speed later on.

Monday

Bank holiday, another day off.

After a late night last night, we were in no hurrry this morning.

Nope, a leisurely viewing Despicable Me 2 fitted the bill nicely.

I did a bit of Lego, loving the castle stuff I got for my birthday:

The landline rang in the house, this is a very rare event indeed.  Mum lunged to answer it, an even rarer event that someone actually could be borhered to answer what would surely prove to be a double glazing sales pitch or something.  But no, it wasn't a cold call, not at a all.  It was in actual fact the BBC!  Asking if they could broadcast the video me and Mum recorded and submitted of me doing the 'Dressing gown monkey dance' for a feature they do on CBBC (freeview channel 70).  So i'm going to be on telly sometime next Saturday afternoon, how exciting.

We had a nice bath and some proper nice hairstyling (long curls and some fringe business) before Darceys third birthday party.

And Uncle Slims birthday too, but he's a little bit older than three I think?

All the usual suspects were there and we had a lovely time.

Of course, the catering was of an extremely high standard.